When I add shading to certain cells in a table, only 7/8 of the cell gets shaded. The bottom 1/8 of it remains white.

How exactly are you shading the cells? Conditional Formatting? MIKE http://www.skeptic.com/

I choose FORMAT, then, BORDERS & SHADING, then, SHADING, then click on the color I want and OK. I've never heard of CONDITIONAL FORMATTING. Could I be doing that without knowing it?

I'm unable to duplicate your problem. The only thing I can think of is if you are using some type of "shape" or "shadow" in your cell? As for Conditional Formatting, you would know if you did it. Look on the Task Bar, Format, Conditional Formatting. To see an example: http://www.computing.net/answers/of... MIKE http://www.skeptic.com/

The only thing I can think you're doing is shading the TEXT rather than shading the CELL (assuming this is MS Word we're talking about) If this is what your issue is, there should be an "apply to" drop down box when you're in the shading tab. To correct the issue you'll have to change the text shading to no colour, then apply the shading to the cell. HTH

Hmm-m-m-m, I'll try that. Thanks. I let you know if it works. I tried it and I'm sure it has something to do with what your talking about...it is Word...I can shade the entire cell if I shade the whole table...I just can't entirely shade selected cells. What's weird is that I shaded the entire table and tried to clear the shading on selected cells...sort of a back door solution to the problem and, guess what...it wouldn't completely clear the shading on those selected cells. It left the same amount 1/8th of the cell shaded! I'm going to leave it alone. It's not crucial. It's a chores chart for my son, so no biggy. Maybe someday I'll figure it out. Thanks for your interest.

I know that it's months later, but I found your post because I was having the same problem. I found a solution, if you are interested. I selected one of the cells with the problem and under Format > Borders and Shading, I applied the shading color that was not completely filling my cells to the entire Table, by using the Apply to: pulldown on the righthand side of the UI. Of course that made all the cells in my table the same color, but it succeeded in completely filling the cells that had been only partially filled before. I then went back and selected the cells that I wanted to be shaded in other colors and shaded those, using the Apply to: pulldown selecting Cell. Although tedious, this ultimately resulted in my having all my cells properly filled.